What agencies have IC (individual contributor) tracks for their Creatives? Not interested in working up to management, but want to continue to grow my compensation.

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In my experience most agencies with their salt have that option. It’s up to you to make it super clear, though. There IS a ceiling to that, though. In my experience, you’ll never make as much as a senior manager, simply because you’ve refused to scale your output.

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That's good to know! I always figured there was a ceiling in ad land anyway, which is why when I hit it, I'll probably heard over to tech 😂

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Freelance.

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Hate it, but thanks for the heads up! The money does mean THAT much to me.

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